[R] Latex and r

Kevin E. Thorpe kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca
Wed Jun 16 20:10:44 CEST 2010


moleps wrote:
> Dear R´ers 
> 
> I´m trying to get a summary table  using latex and summary in the rms package to no avail. I´m running R 2.10.1, Mac OS X snow leopard and I have the mactex 2009 distribution installed. Any obvious things I´m missing?
> 
> //M
> 
>  
> 
> options(digits=3)
> set.seed(173)
> sex <- factor(sample(c("m","f"), 500, rep=TRUE))
> age <- rnorm(500, 50, 5)
> treatment <- factor(sample(c("Drug","Placebo"), 500, rep=TRUE))
> f <- summary(treatment ~ age + sex + Symptoms, method="reverse", test=TRUE)
> 
> latex(f)
> 
> results in the following:
> 
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
> entering extended mode
> 
> (/var/folders/q9/q9COp2FREsikCyHB7w+OxE+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpVIk0iB/file587f83cb.tex
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
> yphenation, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ancientgreek, ibycus, ar
> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutc
> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman, mono
> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, ku
> rmanji, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, po
> lish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, span
> ish, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls
> Document Class: report 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetexconfig/geometry.cfg))
> No file file587f83cb.aux.
> *geometry auto-detecting driver*
> *geometry detected driver: dvips*
> 
> Overfull \hbox (1.14412pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 9--23
>  [] 
> [1] (./file587f83cb.aux)
> 
> LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.
> 
>  )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on file587f83cb.dvi (1 page, 1620 bytes).
> Transcript written on file587f83cb.log.
> sh: xdvi: command not found
> 

I believe there is something in the latex help page in the rms package 
that talks about preview difficulties on MAC.

-- 
Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016



More information about the R-help mailing list